Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday gave a big push to an ongoing mission to get all households in the country electrified by launching a Rs 16,320-crore scheme — Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya) — to achieve the coveted goal by the end of December 2018. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday gave a big push to an ongoing mission
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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday he will not relent in his "battle against corruption" even as he sharpened his government's development and welfarist image by announcing a mega scheme to provide electricity connections to four crore families deprived of regular power. Modi launched a Rs 16,000-crore scheme, Pradhan Mantri Sahaj
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Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress today lost a man they called Chanakya - Mukul Roy, strategist and schemer, who helped Mamata Banerjee make the most of her charismatic leadership. A sitting Rajya Sabha MP and a former railway minister, Mr Roy said today he will quit parliament and the party next month. The Trinamool promptly suspended him for six years
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The Rs 450-crore MOM mission aims at studying the Martian surface and mineral composition as well as scan its atmosphere for methane (an indicator of life on Mars). India's rendezvous with the red planet continues as its celebrated Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) completes three years in orbit.
"As the country's low-cost Mars Orbiter Mission completes three
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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana or ‘Saubhagya’, to supply electricity to poor households. The scheme will cover all rural families after electrification of all villages by December end, this year. The government said that states will be required to complete the household electrification by March 31, 2019.
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Sasikala's nephew and proxy TTV Dhinakaran claims the video was taken when she was being shifted from the ICU to a room. For months till her death in December, the only source of information on the state of J Jayalalithaa in hospital was a handful of her closest aides, including VK Sasikala, top AIADMK leaders and ministers. A minister's confession that he was "forced
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The CBI order is being challenged on several grounds, one of them being the delay of more than six years in recording the victims’ statements Jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh on Moday moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court, challenging a special CBI court’s verdict sentencing him to 20 years in prison for raping two disciples
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Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj addressed the 72nd session of United Nations General Assembly on September 23, 2017. Let me begin by offering my heartiest congratulations on your election as President of the 72nd United Nations General Assembly. For those of us fortunate to represent our nations as Foreign Minister this is a particularly happy
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Sushma Swaraj, touched upon subjects like climate change and in her speech as well. The main focus of her speech remained state-sponsored terrorism by Pakistan. New york: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj gave her second speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday. In her speech delivered in Hindi, Ms Swaraj sharply criticised Pakistan
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